Sydney

“Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society